Deborah Tannen Quotes

If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.

Deborah Tannen

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When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

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White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

Robin DiAngelo

WhiteConsciousnessConservatives

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

Rosie O'Donnell

ChildrenI AmMeThinkParentGay

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.

Mary Pilon

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Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Joshua Leonard

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Yeah, I'd make a decent Bond. But it'd be very, very different if I did it.

Jason Statham

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Thomas Bangalter

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Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

Justin Rosenstein

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Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.

Janet Mock

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Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

James Toback

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When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.

Henry B. Eyring

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